The World Health Organization is being very upfront about a problem it is having. Funding for Sustainable Development Goals is in decline. If someone doesn’t take action, there won’t be enough money to sustain the march toward global socialism. Never fear, they are here to help.
In response, the World Health Organization (WHO) is leading the 3 by 35 Initiative, a bold global effort to increase the real prices of any or all of three unhealthy products – tobacco, alcohol, and sugary drinks by at least 50% by 2035 through tax increases, while taking into account each country’s unique context.
This effort is expected to reduce consumption of harmful products while mobilizing an additional US$ 1 trillion in public revenue globally over the next decade.
These three products are major contributors to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Tobacco alone causes over 7 million deaths annually. The consumption of alcohol and sugary drinks further fuels the global burden of NCDs, undermining health, economic productivity, and sustainable development.
The 3 by 35 Initiative aims to revitalize health taxes as a powerful tool to reduce harmful consumption, save lives, and generate vital public revenue.
Let’s clarify a few things.
First, the only thing the WHO or anyone else involved in Sustainable Development wants is money, so they can use it as leverage to accumulate power. Those are the people who will love this concept.
Second, “Public health” as a globalist concept is a vehicle for depopulation.
Third, sin taxes are the target because they are most likely to fool people into thinking the WHO and the UN are serious about public health. They are not.
Fourth, the money raised will not, as claimed, be used to improve the human condition unless you mean the humans in the UN and WHO and those who help them accumulate power.
Cynical much?
Indeed.
On a positive note, the taxing scheme is voluntary, which means that tyrants seeking new revenue streams can blame the UN and the WHO for their latest graft, exploiting the already taxed and cash-strapped denizens of their respective despotisms. Second- and third-world countries, the EU. America under Democrat leadership.
While America doesn’t have to fret over the federal government embracing this excuse to rob its citizens further, it is only for so long as there are no Democrats in the White House.
Hint hint.
